they or those Eilldu, n. outward side Eilliad, n. a cutting close or shaving Eilliedydd, n. a cutter, a shaver Eillio, v. to cut off; to shave Eilliwr, n. a shaver, a barber Ein, n. property: pron.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

After the field has been specified, the principal charge must be mentioned first, and no charge can take precedence of a bend, fess, pale, pile, chevron, cross, or saltire, except one of themselves.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

He hung about outside Mr. Wilcox’s office at lunch time, and, as the clerks came out said, “Excuse me, sir, but is your boss married?”
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Since then it is certain that our own Hearts deceive us in the Love of the World, and that we cannot command our selves enough to resign it, tho' we every Day wish our selves disengaged from its Allurements; let us not stand upon a Formal taking of Leave, but wean our selves from them, while we are in the midst of them.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Naturally, from a canine chorus of such executants it might reasonably be inferred that the establishment was one of the utmost respectability.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

The inflexible Protestantism of the primitive missionaries, with their fiery denunciations of heathendom, had been exchanged for the supple policy, the easy tolerance, the comprehensive charity of shrewd ecclesiastics, who clearly perceived that if Christianity was to conquer the world it could do so only by relaxing the too rigid principles of its Founder, by widening a little the narrow gate which leads to salvation.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

STATE, dignity; canopied chair of state; estate.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

At that distance its dingy buildings looked white--and so, rank on rank of balconies, windows and roofs, they piled themselves up from the blue ocean till the colossal castle of St. Elmo topped the grand white pyramid and gave the picture symmetry, emphasis and completeness.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

By far the most complete and comprehensive catalogue of solar eclipses is that prepared some years ago by an Austrian astronomer, the late Theodore Von Oppolzer of Vienna, and published under the title of Canon der Finsternisse , in the Memoirs of the Imperial Academy of Sciences.
— from The Story of Eclipses by George F. (George Frederick) Chambers

Their crew consisted of seven European seamen, two free negroes and one Krooman, besides the commander of the vessel and two mates.
— from Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger From unpublished documents in the possession of the late Capt. John William Barber Fullerton ... with a prefatory analysis of the previous travels of Park, Denham, Clapperton, Adams, Lyon, Ritchie, &c. into the hitherto unexplored countries of Africa by Robert Huish

A gallop of three miles through a dense covert, consisting of strong elastic wands, interlaced with prickly weeds and coarse spear grass, left the crowd far behind us; and, arriving at the spot where the animals had been in view, “Yellow Horse,” with half a score of his wild riders, was alone present.
— from The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir

His estate, in short, was a small and almost independent community in itself, capable of supplying the ordinary needs and even the luxuries of a highly civilized condition of social existence.
— from Homes of American Statesmen; With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches by Various

[L] At the end of its first thousand years, Christianity could only show Europe at its lowest ebb of civilization, in a state which Guizot calls “death by the extinction of every faculty.”
— from The Sympathy of Religions by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

The shouting and firing were deafening, the flashing of guns shedding a lurid glare, while, to add to the horror of those moments, the storm had burst upon us, choking clouds of sand enveloping both enemy and friend.
— from Zoraida: A Romance of the Harem and the Great Sahara by William Le Queux

The Christian church of Saint Euphemia, at Chalcedon, in which the grand council had been held, was celebrated for its size and architectural ornaments.
— from Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor Series One and Series Two in one Volume by R. (Robert) Walsh